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Jane Wolfe Diary Entry Tuesday, 11 June 1940
I feel like dancing! like singing full-throated! I want to glorify, to worship, to praise. At intervals I read Liber VII, Cap. IV, to let off steam.
Mary K. [Mary K. Wolfe] comes in and tells me Paris is on fire!! Now, at last my heart aches over European conditions. Heretofore the speed and thoroughness of the Blitzkriegs have fascinated and astounded me. Now I stop to weep for Paris the Beautiful.
This Cap. IV., Liber VII stimulates and thrills me. I have flowed toward it ever since reading the Book, though in sane [Magical] Retirement I memorized Prologue, Caps. I, III and V. Again I used for reading only, Cap. VII. The hieroglyphs in IV kept me from memorizing it.
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